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Toshiba 12 disk stack drive

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Techspot / HUB is reporting that Toshiba is working on a glass based platter that can stack 12 disks inside the drive body that could lead to 40TB by 2027. It will also use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording that reduce the magnetic resistance during data writing. So from my understanding of the article, the disk / plate is switched over to glass substrate and have magnetic coating applied on top instead of using aluminum substrate resulting in thinner disks that can cram more in the same drive body.

 
Knowing how fragile thin glass is compared to aluminum parts of that makes me think this will never hit mass market due to failure rates. But maybe this could be actually quite interesting.
 
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Hard drives used to be physically larger back in the day... I wonder why they don't just move away from the 3.5" format for people who need/want high capacity drives?

I suppose that goes for a lot of ATX based standards too. All this notion of forever "backwards compatibility" seems like it also holds back some innovation.
 
Marzipan said:
yeah, bring back the IBM 305 RAMAC!!!mpress

...but with more storage capacity. k, luv you, bye bye.

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I remember back in the mid 1990s a friend of mine was taking a course on OS and servers things they did a field trip to ICBC in North Vancouver tio see the impressive two dedicated floors of servers to store Driver insurance information ,I dont remember exactly the amount of data those two floors held but I do remember him saying it was a lot, but compared to now days I think to hold the same amount of information could probably be done on a home PC .
When I first bought my first PC Dell Dimension 2300 which had Windows XP Home,1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Processor, impressive 500MB Memory,28 GB Hard Drive, Floppy Drive, CD Drive and I think that it also had the sound blaster audio card but might not have
of course that PC was bought I did old the older Tandy that was a gift and before that the impressive Commodore 64 which I bought from a friend that upgraded to the to e Amiga that came out a few months before everyone was jealous of him
 
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